Babywearing is the practice of wearing your baby in a specially designed carrier, wrap or sling. It fulfills your baby’s need for close physical contact and helps you to be sensitively attuned to their needs. It has many benefits for you and your baby, your family and the wider community. These benefits include the promotion of secure attachment, enhanced bonding, healthy emotional development and reduced crying.1 In fact, one study published in Pediatrics found that baby wearing for three hours per day reduced infant crying by 54 percent in the evening and by 43 percent over all.2

Back in the days of the village and larger families, you would have watched your own mum, aunts, friends breastfeed. You would have observed and absorbed the art of attaching a baby to the breast, watched different age babies at all stages of breastfeeding. These days it is all a little different.

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